Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers

Gilbert, Charlene. (Author). Eli, Quinn. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9780807009628
ISBN: 0807009628
ISBN: 9780807009635 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0807009636 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
193 p., [31] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c2000.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface : of land and love -- Taking root : the Civil War and reconstruction -- A second slavery : the post-reconstruction south -- Strength in numbers : World War I and the peak of Black landownership -- Lines in the sand : Washington, Du Bois, and the postwar boom of the early 1920's -- The thickening shadows : Black migration to the north -- Fly away home : surviving the Great Depression -- Where the past leads : Black agricultural workers and the promise of Roosevelt's New Deal -- The price of progress : World War II and the call for southern change -- Planting seeds : the postwar boom -- The end will not trouble you : Civil Rights in the south -- Epilogue : home at last (1980-present).

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